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Psalms 50 Sermons »    

¹ 1 ¹ A psalm of Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God, the Lord, ¹ speaks and summons the earth ¹ from the rising of the sun to where it sets.

² From Zion, perfect in beauty, ² God shines forth.

³ Our God comes ³ and will not be silent; ³ a fire devours before him, ³ and around him a tempest rages.

⁴ He summons the heavens above, ⁴ and the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵ "Gather to me this consecrated people, ⁵ who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

⁶ And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, ⁶ for he is a God of justice.^[a][b]

⁷ "Listen, my people, and I will speak; ⁷ I will testify against you, Israel: ⁷ I am God, your God.

⁸ I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices ⁸ or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

⁹ I have no need of a bull from your stall ⁹ or of goats from your pens,

¹⁰ for every animal of the forest is mine, ¹⁰ and the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains, ¹¹ and the creatures of the field are mine.

¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you, ¹² for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls ¹³ or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ "Sacrifice thank offerings to God, ¹⁴ fulfill your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵ and call on me in the day of trouble; ¹⁵ I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

¹⁶ But to the wicked, God says: ¹⁶ "What right have you to recite my laws ¹⁶ or take my covenant on your lips?

¹⁷ You hate my instruction ¹⁷ and cast my words behind you.

¹⁸ When you see thieves, you join with them; ¹⁸ you throw in your lot with adulterers.

¹⁹ You use your mouth for evil ¹⁹ and harness your tongue to deceit.

²⁰ You sit and testify against your brother ²⁰ and slander your own mother's son.

²¹ When you did these things and I kept silent, ²¹ you thought I was exactly^[c]' was like you. ²¹ But I now arraign you ²¹ and set my accusations before you.

²² "Consider this, you who forget God, ²² or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue:

²³ Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, ²³ and to the blameless^[d] I will show my salvation."

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